Friday, October 26

 
i lost my diamond necklace yesterday. i was just wearing it one minute and the next it was gone. who knows if I'll ever get it back. it was without a doubt the one object i own that was the most emotionally charged for me. it was a one year anniversary gift from my boyfriend of almost two years who is now just my friend, even though that is not always easy. this is what's weird: i don't believe in fate, but this has me thinking. i lost the necklace yesterday, on october 24th, the eve of our would-be two year anniversary. but until i lost the necklace i didn't even remember that the 25th was coming. i might've gotten through this whole miserable day without a second thought to it if i hadn't lost that necklace. so what does that mean? beats me. when i told brian about it he said that if i found it on the 25th it must mean we made a mistake and should get married. but i didn't find it so i am still a singleton.

but that leaves me the freedom to do things like save the world, one good deed at a time. like on tuesday when my friend laura and i were in the break room of our internship office (an entertainment public relations firm in century city) and she tried to get some m&m's from the vending machine. only once they dropped she couldn't push the little door open to grab them. we pressed our forheads against the glass to look down and, lo and behold, there was a veritable wealth of snack food trapped in the pit below. apparently the idiots who ran that vending machine thought shrimp cup o' noodles would be a splendid addition. only, those cups o' noodle are too fat to fall down, so got jammed and blocked the door. looking at that forlorn candy, however, i was struck with an ingenious idea. i told laura to lean against the snack door with all her might; "put your back into it!" was what i meant. so we did together and squished that styrofoam cup o' freeze-dried disgustingness (do you really want to eat shrivelly dehydrated shrimp that blow up at the touch of hot water? is that safe?) enough so that laura could force her delicate rower's arm into the vending machine.

so i did a good deed by rescuing laura's m&m's. and you know what the best part was? you know all those imaginationless suckers who watched their snacks become trapped inside the machine and didn't do a damn thing about it? well we stole all of their candy! HA! take that! that's one for shannon, zero for the man.
posted by from shannon at 1:26 AM